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Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2024

Resource wars and the geopolitics behind climate-fueled conflicts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

Rapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local communities

Maxwell Radwin 15 Apr 2024
A flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) in PNG.

Conservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remain

Spoorthy Raman 12 Apr 2024
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

Traceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)

Erasmus zu Ermgassen 12 Apr 2024
People watch a forest fire in Kratié Province, Cambodia.

Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in women

Anton L. Delgado 11 Apr 2024
Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
For generations here, fishers like Mukhlis have used wood to build fish-aggregating devices, known locally as rumpon, which are moored offshore to attract schools of fish.

In Java Sea, vigilantism and poverty rise as purse seine fishing continues

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 11 Apr 2024

Forests in Vietnam’s Central Highlands at risk as development projects take priority

Le Quynh 10 Apr 2024

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: The defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Laila Abu Shihab Vergara 8 Apr 2024
Ofelia Samboni an Indigenous Yanacona member and landowner in Monclart, holds a stone containing copper. The stone was found in the river close to the mining area. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Apr 2024
Satellite image of dredging in South China Sea

Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs

Carolyn Cowan 8 Apr 2024

Putting a value on Indonesia’s marine resources: Interview with Annisya Rosdiana & Heidi Retnoningtyas

Basten Gokkon 8 Apr 2024
A hawksbill turtle

As a megaport rises in Cameroon, a delicate coastal ecosystem ebbs

Elodie Toto 5 Apr 2024
A thin elderly man, the open neck of hard-worn brown t-shirt exposing bones in his chest, looks at the camera, the trunk of a palm tree, dried fronds, and simple houses with rusting corrugated iron roofs in the background. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

World Bank’s IFC under fire over alleged abuses at Liberian plantation it funded

Victoria Schneider 4 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024
Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River in Kaieteur National Park in central Essequibo Territory, Guyana. Image courtesy of Rainforest Foundation US.

What’s really at stake in the Venezuela-Guyana land dispute? (commentary)

Jean La Rose 3 Apr 2024
The Chocolate Hills of Bohol Island in the central Philippines are a sprawling geological wonder, shaped by nature millions of years ago.

Resort in Philippines’ protected Chocolate Hills sparks uproar, probes

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
In Kampong Phluk, a floating village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, a fisherman collects his catch.

Report shows dire state of Mekong’s fish — but damage can still be undone

Anton L. Delgado 1 Apr 2024

Locals slam Zimbabwe for turning a blind eye to Chinese miner’s violations

Tatenda Chitagu 1 Apr 2024
A man on an e-bike.

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Charles Pekow 1 Apr 2024
A mountain biker.

Adventure tours with tigers? Nepal’s proposed policy changes raise alarm

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
A woodpecker in Chitwan National Park.

Cable car proposal is Nepal’s latest plan to commercialize national parks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
Saber Hossain Chowdhury interacting with the press.

Expediting environmental policy: Interview with Bangladesh minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury

Abu Siddique 29 Mar 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

Nepal mulls policy shift to allow hotels back into tiger strongholds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
A car charging.

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2024

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